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Featured Books:

Juice

Tim Winton

One of Australia’s favorite novelists turns his attention to the future, a grim future turned apocalyptic by the effects of unchecked climate change. The novel takes place in Western Australia where summers are hot enough that people must live underground for part of the year. The protagonist of the story drives through a bleak and burned landscape with a young girl in an attempt to find sanctuary. They become detained by an armed man who keeps them in an old mine shaft. The protagonist’s past unfolds as he tells his story to his captor. Tim Winton shows no mercy to the heads of corporations and their descendants that are complicit in fueling climate change resulting in this uninhabitable world. While the story and setting are bleak, it is an action-packed page-turner told by a master of language and imagery. And there is a sense of hope amidst this dystopian future as people are fighting against the past and still working for a future even as society slips into barbarism.

What's the Big Idea?: 30 Years of the Australia Institute

edited by Anna Chung & Alice Grundy)

This book offers a collection of short essays on a variety of issues, all of great importance in Australia today: climate change and actions, gender inequalities, the growing wealth gap in Australia, housing, the design of cities in a warming world, our international relationships and more. Each essay is only a few paragraphs long, and offers a condensed view of the issue and solutions. There are many authors eminent in their field, and they are offering fresh, up-to-date visions for our society. This book is easy to read and covers a broad range of important issues. It would be a great introduction to many topics important to our society today.

More Books:

The Climate Book (compiled by Greta Thunberg) - A compendium of short essays by experts across many disciplines, curated by Greta, who also writes an intro to each section.
The Ends of the World (Peter Brannon) - "...award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future" - Amazon
TOXIC. The rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry (Richard Flanagan) - Richard is a Tasmanian, one of Australia's greatest novelists, and an impassioned non-fiction writer on ethical causes. Read only a few pages of this book and you won't eat Tasmanian salmon again.

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